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  • From: Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Chicken Housing
  • Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 21:56:58 -0400


On May 23, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Gloria Morris wrote:

... I will need to secure the bucket in some
fashion. Nailing it to the hen house would make it immobile, but also
less easy to clean.

Maybe bungee cords. Rubber cloth covered things with hooks on each end. Harbor Freight has them cheap. They'd be washable, too. A round eye screwed into the support for the flat sided buckets would be good to hook the ends to. Use eyes big enough to take two hooks. A simple nail bent over would work, too.

It's not completely clear that their nests need to be very clean, though. But I know from nothing about chickens.

I know that folks who tell how to make both blue bird houses and purple martin apartment dwellings want us to provide for yearly cleaning.

The house I grew up in still has wooden the chicken roosting boxes, still in place unused since the 1940's.

Roy

Roy Morgan
k1lky AT earthlink.net
Lovettsville, VA 20180







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